Personnel Qualifications And Training; Hazards Caused By Non-Observance Of The Safety Instructions; Safety-Conscious Work; Safety Instructions For User/Operator - SFA SANICUBIC SC Série Mode D'emploi

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1.2 Personnel qualifications and training

The staff for operation, maintenance, inspection and installation must have the corresponding
qualification for this work. For this reason, the area of responsibility, the competency and
the supervision of the staff has to be precisely defined by the company. If the staff does
not have the necessary knowledge, then they must be trained and instructed. If and when
necessary, this may be carried out by the manufacturer / supplier of the pump on behalf of
the pump operator. Moreover, the operator has to ensure that the content of the operating
instructions is understood completely by the staff.

1.3 Hazards caused by non-observance of the safety instructions

The non-observation of the safety instructions may endanger persons as well as the
environment, and may have consequences for the environment and machine. The non-
observation of the safety instructions will result in the loss of all claims for damages.
In detail, the non-observation may cause the following hazards, for example:
• Failure of important machine/system functions
• Failure of prescribed methods for maintenance and repairs
• Danger to persons through electrical, mechanical and chemical hazards
• Danger to the environment through leakage of harmful substances

1.4 Safety-conscious work

The safety instructions mentioned in these operating instructions, the existing national
regulations on accident prevention as well as potential in-company work, operating and
safety instructions of the user must be observed.

1.5 Safety instructions for user/operator

• If hot or cold machine parts could lead to hazards, these parts have to be protected
against touch by the user.
• Touch protection for moving parts (e.g. coupling) must not be removed from the machine
being in operation.
• Leakage (of the shaft seal, for example) of hazardous material conveyed (e.g. explosive,
toxic, hot) must be removed in such a way that no danger is caused to persons and the
environment. Legal regulations have to be observed.
• Hazards caused by electric energy must be excluded (for details here, please refer to the
country-specific regulations and the regulations of the local energy supply companies.
1.6 Safety instructions for maintenance, inspection and assembly
work
The user has to make sure that all maintenance, inspection and installation work is carried
out by authorised and qualified specialist personnel only, who has sufficiently been informed
by studying the operating instructions.
Basically, work on the machine may be carried out only at standstill. The procedure to shut
down the machine described in the operating instructions must be observed at all times.
Pumps or pump assemblies, which convey media hazardous to health, must be
decontaminated. Immediately after completing the work, all safety and protection devices
have to be fitted again and/or have to be made functional again.
Before recommissioning, the points listed in the chapter on initial commissioning have to be
observed.
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